Increasing Workloads and Stagnating Pay—Hotel Workers Are Fighting Back
Members of the UNITE HERE Local 26 hospitality union protest outside the Park Plaza hotel in Boston, MA on September 1, 2024. Jason Bergman/SipaUSA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Around 10,000 hotel workers went on strike over Labor Day weekend, picketing for better…
UPS Drivers Won “Historic Heat Protections.” They Say the Company Hasn’t Lived Up to That Promise.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A year after a union contract won “historic heat protections” for UPS drivers, the Teamsters are still pushing the company to do more to protect workers in vehicles that can reach up to 120 degrees. Multiple employees told…
Disability Advocates Fear New York Will Gut a Key Home Care Program
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul at a press conference.Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In late April, New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers finalized a $233 billion budget for the next fiscal year. One item in its 144-page official…
How Olympic Athletes Are Fighting for Fair Pay and Working Conditions
Team USA celebrate after the water polo women’s quarterfinal match between Hungary and the United States at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.Wang Yuguo/Xinhua/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When Veronica Fraley posted on X last week that she couldn’t afford her rent, the…
The Teamsters and the GOP Had a Moment Last Night
Nate Gowdy/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Monday night, after the triumphant entrance of former president and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, Teamsters Union general president Sean O’Brien addressed the Republican National Convention. “I refuse to keep doing the same things…
Why Donald Trump’s Plan to Stop Taxing Tips Is a Lame Political Stunt
Mother Jones; Samuel Corum/Getty (3) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was originally published on Judd Legum’s Substack, Popular Information, to which you can subscribe here. As president, Donald Trump’s tax policy heavily favored corporations and the wealthy. Trump’s signature tax legislation, the Tax…